GB2RS
Rallies and Events
The Red Rose Winter Rally takes place today, Sunday 13 January, in the George H Carnell Leisure Centre, Kingsway Park, M41 7FJ. The venue is easily accessible from M60 junction 9. Doors open at 11am and there will be trade stands, special interest groups, a Bring & Buy and an RSGB bookstand. More details from […]
Special Events
The RNLI SOS Radio week runs from 19 to 27 January and more than 25 stations have registered to take part. For full details of those stations, check out the website at www.sosradioweek.org.uk. Pontefract and District ARS will be operating GB0SRW from 19 to 27 January as part of RNLI SOS Radio week. The club […]
DX News
4ZW is currently on the air from South Sudan as Z81Z. He is active on the HF bands, mostly using CW. Please QSL via his home callsign or electronically using Logbook of the World. SM6CPY will be operational as 9X0PY from Rwanda between 15 and 31 January. Activity will be holiday style, on all bands, […]
Contest News
Today, 13 January, the CW Affiliated Clubs Contest takes place from 1400 to 1800UTC. Using CW on the 80m band, the exchange is signal report and serial number. Tuesday 15th sees the 1.3GHz UK Activity Contest take place between 2000 and 2230UTC. Using all modes on the 23cm band, the exchange is signal report, serial […]
Propagation
And now the solar factual data for the period from the 4th to the 10 of January, compiled by Neil Clarke, G0CAS on the 11th of January. During the period numerous sunspot regions appeared and on the 6th, fourteen regions were visible. Most were small and quiet, even some of the larger regions remained quiet. […]
GB2RS News for Sunday, 16 December 2012
GB2RS News during the holiday season This is the last GB2RS broadcast of 2012. There will be no news readings on 23 or 30 December. But we will be back in the New Year, bringing you the all the latest amateur radio news. Transmissions re-start on Sunday 6 January. We would like to take this […]





